Summary: "You have sown much, but bring in little....."

6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

This text focuses on five messages given to the prophet Haggai as Israel enjoyed life after exile.

The Jews had been in captivity for many years in Babylon.

During that time they had wept, mourned and prayed that God would deliver them from their exile.

I think that daily they watched and prayed for Jerusalem and yearned to see its walls.

If you will remember, Daniel opened his windows facing Jerusalem and prayed.

In all of their troubles and suffering the Jews never stopped hoping and praying that they would one day return to Jerusalem.

While they were in Babylon they managed to have some faith in God but their formal worship life disappeared.